Herms wrote:On last week’s podcast, DaemonCorps asked if any additional background information on the characters had been released after the end of the series, and in response Mike mentioned the tidbit about Sauzer’s mad language skills from Daizenshuu 7 that I wrote about in the Tales from the Daizenshuu thread. On that thread, Olivier Hague had said that this piece of information had originally appeared in an issue of Weekly Jump that had come out before DBZ movie 5 premiered, which had contained a lot of extra background information on Coola and his Armored Squad that didn’t appear in the movie. This intrigued me, but I never got around to looking into it until the podcast reminded me of the whole thing.
So I looked at the
Japanese Wikipedia entry for DBZ movie 5, and there in its section on the movie’s enemy characters it also mentions that issue of Weekly Jump that included background information on the Armored Squad members, and includes this information in its bios of each of them. So I translated all this extra information:
Sauzer is from Planet Coola No.98 (formally Planet Brench). His home planet had very high gravity, which is why he has a small body, but also makes him very fast and agile on other planets. He is so intelligent that he is capable of speaking 7,000 languages (this was the bit that was mentioned in Daizenshuu 7). He competed with Ginyu to be leader of the Armored Squad (Olivier Hague mentioned this bit in the Tales from the Daizenshuu thread), and is one of the few people who know’s Ginyu’s true form. He is from the same solar system as Jheese, which has two suns. His name comes from Thousand Island salad dressing, and his home planet of Brench is named for French dressing.
Neiz is from Planet Coola No.6 (formally Planet Zalt). His home planet is nothing but water, and his race evolved from a species of amphibians (how can you have amphibians on a planet that’s nothing but water?!). His name comes from mayonnaise, and his home planet is named for salt.
Dore is from Planet Coola No.256 (formally Planet Beppa). Because the continents of his home planet are surrounded by lava, he has an extremely tough body. He used that physique to become a wrestler in the Galactic Pro Wrestling League (…). He was undefeated in 300 matches, but he killed all of his opponents during the match. He has a blood-thirsty personality. He is named for dressing, and his home planet is named for pepper.
There’s not much additional information on Coola, but Weekly Jump explained Coola’s lack of lower forms like Freeza had by saying that Coola could fully control his power in his fourth form, so he didn’t need to have lower forms that lowered his power.
The background information on the characters also included their battle powers. Sauzer’s battle power is 170,000, Neiz’s is 163,000, and Dore is 185,000. Coola’s battle power was given in an issue of V-Jump; in his normal form it’s 140,000,000 and after transforming it is 470,000,000.
Kaioken is always visible.
